It is the summer of 2004, on what is supposed to be the first day
of the rest of Larry Kolb's life—after having intentionally
blown his cover as a spy, he'd hoped to leave behind the world of
espionage and international intrigue forever. But over lunch with
an old friend, one thing leads to another and suddenly he's being
asked by a high-level Department of Homeland Security official to
assist in a case that has troubled government security agencies
for the past three years.

Kolb, it seems, is the only person the government can find who knows
much of anything about one Robert Sensi. Though Sensi was once an
operative of the CIA and an official of the Republican National
Committee, and has twice served time in federal prison for embezzlement
and fraud, all the government's databases seem to have been scrubbed
clean of information about him. And now Sensi's at the center of
a Homeland Security counterterrorism investigation, along with a
mysterious partner, whom no one in the government has been able
to identify, or even photograph, despite three years of trying.

Kolb's hopes of disentangling himself from the world of espionage
forgotten, he is plunged headlong into an investigation that leads
to a dark trail of crimes and terrorists, mysterious deaths, fugitive
billionaires, inept federal agencies, and corruption at the highest
levels. A spectacular arrest is made, and the case is officially
closed.

But something still feels amiss, and when Kolb lays out all the
relevant files and begins to connect the dots, he realizes that
these two con men have been plotting something even more sinister,
playing for the highest possible political stakes—and that
neither Kolb's work nor the government's efforts have done anything
to avert it. So while the clock is ticking, Kolb must convince some
of the most important people in the country about what he's discovered,
and keep himself alive while doing it.

In this shocking and illuminating book, Larry Kolb shows how one
well-informed individual did what all of our security agencies could
not. He reveals the methods by which a trained intelligence operative
looks at the world and sees what others don't see. And he tells
a breathtakingly suspenseful story of corruption and intrigue—of
the way power and money really work—that would be unbelievable
were it not intensively documented and corroborated from start to
finish.